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...“The American people don’t give up,” he said at a drive-in rally in Des Moines. “We don’t cower; nor do I.” The seven-day average across the Midwest hit a record 26,869 new cases a day on Friday....
...I also filed this column from Des Moines about the Democrats’ public relations disaster in Iowa....
...It was late afternoon on February 2, the eve of the Iowa caucuses. We were jammed into a high-school gymnasium in Des Moines, the state capital, for Joe Biden’s closing rally....
...After the Democratic presidential contenders gathered in Des Moines on Friday for a dinner that often sets the tone for Iowa’s crucial February caucus, many of the headlines were dominated by an incautious...
...Mr Buttigieg topped a CNN/Des Moines Register poll published earlier this week, with 25 per cent support among likely Iowa Democratic caucus goers — significantly more than Elizabeth Warren, the US senator...
...Steven’s book on Google, In The Plex, was a David Halberstam-style tour de force that married detail and big picture, so I have high hopes for this book too....
...My favourite report on it is ancillary: Lauren Fedor travelled to the city of Des Moines before the Iowa caucuses, the first major voting event of the Democratic presidential primary process....
...The morning after her Iowa City rally, Harris bounced into an Arts and Crafts house in Des Moines for an event to honour Emerge Iowa — a group that aims to get more women elected at every level of politics...
...Writing in the Des Moines Register, Tana Goertz, co-chair of the 2016 Trump campaign in Iowa, said “her radicalism is going to make my job getting Donald Trump re-elected in 2020 that much easier”....
...Born in Des Moines, Iowa to doctor parents, Mr Silbermann always assumed he would follow into the family profession....
...You can praise Iowa (Kerouac: “the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines”) or be honest (Bill Bryson: “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to”)....
...Then, in 1974, came the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali v George Foreman....
...A Daca recipient from Iowa was murdered in Mexico after being returned by immigration authorities to the country he left at the age of 3, the Des Moines Register reported last week....
...It’s not a retail mall in Des Moines, Iowa, where Sears is the anchor tenant.” * = This article has been amended since initial publication to clarify the profit margin measure....
...Later that night, after it was clear that the pattern in Des Moines had been repeated throughout Iowa, Mr Obama appeared at the downtown convention centre amid a jubilant melee of kids in buttercup yellow...
...Meanwhile, the Democratic candidates gather for their second debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on Friday....
...But the very fact that Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are running strongly for the American and French presidencies says something disturbing about the health of liberal democracy in the west....
...In an interview with the Des Moines Register in Iowa last week, he said: “Should I win a second term, a big reason is because the Republican nominee and the Republican Party have so alienated the fastest-growing...
...With Mr Gingrich standing by his side on the podium at Drake University in Des Moines, Mr Romney promised that if elected president he would act with “sobriety, care and stability”, contrasting himself with...
...Along with his partner, Teresa Rolling, they struck out Mr Romney, after the former Massachusetts governor offered Mr Perry a $10,000 bet to settle a dispute over health policy....
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...In other signs that he may be slipping, Mr Romney picked up the endorsement of Iowa’s largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, and Nikki Haley, the Tea-party favourite governor of South Carolina, a third...
...led to a specific healthcare concern, according to Kathie Obradovich, a political columnist for the Des Moines Register....
...“The world’s attention is back on your cause,” Mr Gates told an audience of agronomist, policymakers and hunger activists at the World Food Prize symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, during his first significant...
...Moines Register has Kerry edging slightly ahead among voters who have already cast their ballots....
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